Hasn’t the founder been a vocal critic of Russia for years, including the Ukraine war? I don’t really see why that would be a concern, especially since Telegram is supposedly owned by a US LLC

Greenblatt also noted that 99.99% of the 18,000 accounts that staff cracked met the Department’s password complexity requirements — including “Password-1234.”

If a password as rudimentary as “password-1234” satisfies the complexity requirements, I think that some blame should be shared by the IT team in charge of account security…